Sentence examples for kind of beacon from inspiring English sources

The concerts "began as a kind of beacon -- 'Here we are, don't forget us,' " he added.

Situated at one end of town, it became a kind of beacon of change.

Just over 12 months on, a new kind of beacon is making headlines: the iBeacon.

"We wanted it to be a kind of beacon," said Willis Hartshorn, director of the International Center of Photography.

When I started smoking myself, I realized that a lit cigarette acted as a kind of beacon, drawing in any freeloader who happened to see or smell it.

Mr. Clapton said he finds his stability in the blues, the music that he first loved and that he continues to regard as a kind of beacon.

"We're brainstorming about how to take something that was kind of a beacon to the world about counterculture and music and community in 1969 and transforming it into a 21st century phenomenon that has an Internet platform instead of a live one".

… A big part of what we do is being kind of a beacon for culture change in the area of work-life balance and good physical and mental health".

I believe that truth resonates within all of us as a kind of homing beacon, which is why we are naturally drawn toward those people who have the courage to lay down their masks and be present in the world.

And this is exactly why there is so much interest in the Irish abortion debate in the U.S. "Ireland is country that has managed not to have abortion so Ireland has become a kind of a beacon on the hill for the international pro-life movement," Eric Scheidler, executive director of the Chicago-based Pro-Life Action League, told VICE News.

This isn't to say I haven't experienced racism in Canada, or that Canada is some kind of shining beacon of racial equality (this isn't true, and the kind of narrative that is often pushed by media to absolve the country of wrongdoings is not right), but it has made me stop and consider my relationship to the world in a way that I probably wouldn't have growing up elsewhere.